Many people
mistakenly think that Muslims are divided into two halves:
Sunnis and Shi'it. In reality Shia are between 7.5% to 11%.
All the rest (93.5%) are Sunnis (ignoring the fact the
Shi'ism is a totally different religion than Islam). The word
Shia includes all kinds of Shi'it Sects such as (Twelvers
Imami Rafidi Shia, Isma'ili Shia, Alawi (Nusairi) Shia, Druze
Shia, Zaidi Shia).

The first
statistic was all taken from the British Encyclopedia for the
year 1997. However, we feel that it has some incorrect
numbers for some countries such as Iran. Their number is compared to the total number of Muslims which is 1,482,596,925

Country Name

Total Population

Percentage of Shia

Number of Shia

Sect

Afghanistan

22,664,136

15%

3,399,620

Imami

Azerbaijan

7,676,953

75%

5,757,715

Imami

Bahrain

590,042

61.3%

361,696

Imami

India

952,107,694

3%

28,563,231

Isma'ili, Imami

Iran

66,094,264

93.4%

61,732,043

Imami

Iraq

21,422,292

62.5%

13,388,933

Imami

Kuwait

1,950,047

30%

585,014

Imami

Lebanon

3,776,317

41%

1,548,290

Imami, Druze

Oman

2,186,548

2%

43,731

Imami

Pakistan

129,275,660

20%

25,855,132

Imami

Qatar

547,761

5%

27,388

Imami

Saudi Arabia

19,409,058

3.3%

640,499

Imami

Syria

15,608,648

15.3%

2,388,123

Nusairi, Druze

Turkey

62,484,478

20%

12,496,896

Nusairi

United Arab
Emirates

3,057,337

16%

489,174

Imami

Yemen

13,483,178

46.9%

6,323,610

Zaidi

Total

11.0%

163,601,094

This statistic
was all taken from many independent sources for the year 1999.
It is more accurate than the previous one. It is important to
remember that Shia have a high birth rate since their
religion allows adultery (Mut'a). The percentage of Shia this
time is relative to the percentage of Muslims.